Day 4: Everything You Should Know About What’s Happening in Ferguson

Some 350-odd protesters flooded the streets of Ferguson, Mo. Wednesday evening, demanding justice for the death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown and the name of the police officer who killed him. They chanted, "Hands up, don't shoot" as they marched through the predominantly black city.

Late Wednesday and in the early morning hours of Thursday, Ferguson police—clad in armor and armed with rifles—fired tear gas, stun grenades, smoke bombs, and rubber bullets on these protesters and news teams on the scene. At least 10 people were arrested by Ferguson police last night, including journalists and an alderman;
according to the New York Times, Ferguson police have arrested more than 50 people since protests started Sunday.

Protesters have been reported throwing molotov cocktails and rocks at police—one officer
told KSDK that a protester hurled a brick at him.

The alderman, Antonio French, of St. Louis City's 21st Ward, was tweeting and posting videos to Vine when he was apprehended by police last night, his wife told ABC News.

"I've had enough of being pushed around because of the color of my skin. I'm sick of this police brutality," one protester, Terrell, 18, told Reuters. "I'm going to keep coming back here night after night until we get justice."

Two journalists, the
Washington Post's Wesley Lowery and the Huffington Post's Ryan J. Reilly, documented in detail their arrests by police last night, who apparently hauled them away after failing to leave a McDonald's they were working out of with other journalists fast enough.

According to Reuters, two-thirds of Ferguson's 21,000 population is black and only three officers in the city's 53-person police force are black.

"Unfortunately, an undertow (of racial unrest) has bubbled to the surface," Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said at a press conference Wednesday. "Race relations is the top priority right now."

The St. Louis County Police Department appears outright resistant to releasing further details of Brown's killing, citing the officer's safety as their reasoning. They've reneged on previous plans to release the officer's name. Hacker group Anonymous has already
unearthed the police dispatch calls from the time of Brown's death; they have also vowed to dox the officer.